Title: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Martin Bohnet on June 03, 2022, 09:33:43 PM
Post by: Martin Bohnet on June 03, 2022, 09:33:43 PM
those came up in two different pots - one of which is of a plant I bought last fall? they are either very fast from seed, or something I put in there totally absent minded?
Does not smell like onion (or maybe only faintly so), and opens up in the evening. produces more than one stalk per bulb
Does not smell like onion (or maybe only faintly so), and opens up in the evening. produces more than one stalk per bulb
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: WimB on June 19, 2022, 12:39:10 AM
Post by: WimB on June 19, 2022, 12:39:10 AM
It's a Gagea sp., but I'm not up to speed with the different species...
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Martin Bohnet on June 19, 2022, 05:32:30 AM
Post by: Martin Bohnet on June 19, 2022, 05:32:30 AM
Hmm - I've looked up a few Gageas and none of them had that papery bract at the base of the umbel, and I find them rather late for any gageas (they are still flowering). My "gut feeling" points more towards Themidaceae, though I couldn't rule out the gageas completely.
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Dennis Kramb on July 07, 2022, 10:05:21 PM
Post by: Dennis Kramb on July 07, 2022, 10:05:21 PM
Is it a Hypoxis species?
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Martin Bohnet on July 07, 2022, 10:12:43 PM
Post by: Martin Bohnet on July 07, 2022, 10:12:43 PM
That's what Inaturalist suggested, but I'm sceptical. I've done a review of some EX data lately, and my current suspect is Nothoscordum felipponei
donated by @Uli - mine looks like a starved form of those depicted in the wiki...
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Uli on July 08, 2022, 12:30:09 AM
Post by: Uli on July 08, 2022, 12:30:09 AM
Hmmmm...., I don't know. I have no pictures of my own plants in flower but the fotos in the WIKI show flowers with much broader petals.
Also, my Nothoscordum felipponei flowers in late winter (outdoors in a Mediterranean Climate) and has been dormant for weeks. It would surprise me that it would behave so differently in your climate, @Martin Bohnet.
Uli
Also, my Nothoscordum felipponei flowers in late winter (outdoors in a Mediterranean Climate) and has been dormant for weeks. It would surprise me that it would behave so differently in your climate, @Martin Bohnet.
Uli
Title: Re: Tiny yellow stars
Post by: Fermi on August 12, 2022, 04:15:10 AM
Post by: Fermi on August 12, 2022, 04:15:10 AM
Possibly Nothoscordum ostenii though I think this has had a name change
cheers
fermi
cheers
fermi